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Notes

  1. 1.

    One recent book analyzes the role of sub-national jurisdictions in immigrant settlement and integration in Australia, Canada, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and Spain. See: Immigrant Integration in Federal Countries, C. Jopke and L. Seidle, eds. (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2013). In addition, some issues relevant to the discussion of immigration federalism have been explored in Managing Immigration and Diversity in Canada: A Transatlantic Dialogue in the New Age of Migration, Dan Rodriguez-Garcia, ed (Montreal & Kingston: Queen’s Policy Studies Series, 2012).

  2. 2.

    Vineberg’s position on the United States (i.e., that US enforcement policies are mainly centralized) may seem at first sight radically different from the positions of other authors in this volume (i.e., Chacón and Aldana). However, Vineberg focuses only on the “formal” allocation of power and, namely that the US Constitution does not allow states to directly control the entry of non-citizens into their territory. He does not consider the situation on the ground (i.e., the devolution by the federal government of some of their traditional functions in immigration to states and localities).

  3. 3.

    As of July 1, 2012, federal department of Citizenship and Immigration requires all nominees in semi- and low-skilled professions to undergo mandatory language testing, but no such mandatory testing is required for skilled workers nominated under PTNPs (CIC 2012).

  4. 4.

    In fact, Quebec has served as an example for other provinces who sought greater role in immigrant selection (Vineberg 2008).

  5. 5.

    See, e.g., Canada—Québec Accord Relating to Immigration and Temporary Admission of Aliens, (February 5, 1991), s. 2, online: Citizenship and Immigration Canada http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/­policy/fed-prov/can-que.html

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Baglay, S., Nakache, D. (2014). Introduction. In: Baglay, S., Nakache, D. (eds) Immigration Regulation in Federal States. International Perspectives on Migration, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8604-1_1

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